Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation

Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

No 338, Working Papers from Leibniz Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)

Abstract: Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on immigrant assimilation. We develop a simple theoretical model useful for capturing the consequences of this struggle, illustrating it with examples of Central Asian assimilation into the Muscovite economy.

Keywords: assimilation; migrants; culture; ethnic goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33
Date: 2014-03
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